The biggest item for
the fifth
week was preparation for the first inspection. There was also a
pile of other things done.

We got our new bathroom windows.

And a lock on the door (in case the raccoon came back when we weren't
home?).

Also, the hole for the
new stairs was started from the top down. I joked that what they
were going to do was cut the joists and let the whole mess fall onto
the existing stairs and get all over the second and first floors.

Fortunately they cleaned out the hole.

This was the mess that came out...

Two bags worth!

They also started the closet. This has been a design issue since
the architect put it in. The roof is sloped, so how do you get
two full-sized doors in there? The contractor talked to us and
put in only one. Now, there is a lot of space you can't get
to. The Lady Of The Manor wasn't pleased and wanted to talk to
him. She hung around the next morning as long as she could, but
then had to go to work. Of course, as she disappeared around the
corner he showed up! I laughed and said to him, "You just KNEW
the Boss was looking for you didn't you?" He made sure he saw her
during the day and we will show you the eventual solution as it goes in.

The brick layers came back and reinforced the old bathroom window hole
(compare to the bedroom window beside it). Also note that there
is now an outlet for the bathroom exhaust fan. That apparently
has been venting humid air into the roof for some time!

The space that they opened up is now taken up with: hot and cold water
pipers, the sewage discharge, wire for the electricity for the room,
wire for the heat pump that's going up there, phone, ethernet and
coax. Whew.

He is the very model of a modern Inspector General.(apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan)
The inspector came as scheduled. The first item was that he
wasn't even going up to the roof until there was a railing! The
contractor said, "Give me 10 minutes!"

He was given access to all the plumbing...

And they rigged up a way to run water into the drain as a test.

Apparently there were some questions about the front structure (to be
resolved), the bath drain and the insulation over the pot lights.
I feel better about the last bit. Once I saw the vapour barrier
around the pot light boxes, I asked if we'd made a mistake going that
route since it looked like there could be a lot of heat loss around
them.

The inspector asked that half the roof insulation value be above the
lights. Here is the solution.